Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] all over " in BNC.

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31 Some firms of English solicitors have branch offices in the major centres of commerce all over the world , to advise local clients on English law .
32 The Pope 's 450-page draft text has been drawn up with the help of 24,000 suggestions from bishops all over the world .
33 Thus , UDC has been extensively employed in special libraries and information centres in locations all over the world since the early 1900s .
34 Back at base , crews make practise drops at locations all over this country .
35 Which means in future keeping track of methane levels at sites all over the country could take no more thanb a simple phone call .
36 Another notable promotion , to the trade this time , involved Picador 's sending pairs of pink knickers to booksellers all over the country — mostly men — to promote Tama Janowitz' new novel , The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group .
37 We assist in the movement of products and raw materials between nations all over the world .
38 A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things .
39 the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but
40 and there were bits of fibreglass all over the street
41 Nails had to admit that it was true he slept in his clothes every night ; he had bits of straw all over him and probably smelled a bit .
42 It ploughed into the ground scattering debris and bits of aluminium all over the place .
43 But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning .
44 ‘ Although we have had bookings from people all over Britain , strangely no one has expressed any interest from Northern Ireland , ’ she added .
45 One only has to look at the diminishing casts in productions all over the country .
46 Dee makes plenty of long journeys to clubs all over the country usually in a hired Ford Fiesta , as he does n't own a car .
47 A beautiful silver starfish , with points of light all over its body , sapphire and rose-pink and silver .
48 The worship of , or professed belief in , a god of some kind is to be found in varying degrees of sincerity all over the world .
49 He had very red hair and a pale complexion with masses of freckles all over his face , he was very popular with everyone and lived for the day when he could join the Army , particularly the Camerons .
50 It did n't help that Mom had candy and nuts in dishes all over the house .
51 For here was an ordinary average crowd of Air Force youngsters , neither better nor worse than their compatriots in squadrons all over the world .
52 And , after some 40 exhibitions in cities all over the world , she can boast that every one of her 1,000 well-loved paintings has been sold , apart from a few she has deliberately reserved for herself .
53 Not only is she busy sending out subscription forms to the existing 220 members , she is also coping with the dozens of enquiries from amateurs all over the world looking to turn professional .
54 Which 1956 film caused riots in cinemas all over the world ? 02 .
55 His mother had said that it was all very well to mock but she had stood many long hours at auctions all over the city finding the right pieces .
56 By this time Sisson 's reputation was such that he had begun to receive orders for large astronomical instruments , such as mural quadrants , zenith sectors , and transit instruments for observatories all over Europe : for Utrecht , Bologna , Leiden , Paris , and Pisa , as well as for the private observatory of George Parker , second Earl of Macclesfield [ q.v. ]
57 Miss Jarman 's words dropped like a stone in a pond , causing ripples of protest all over the room .
58 Questions similar to this one seem to occupy an inordinate amount of the energies of scientists all over the world , not to mention grouses about the shortsightedness/injustice/lack of imagination of a straight thumbs down to a researcher 's pet proposal .
59 Over the past years we 've made well over 1000 grants to organisations all over the UK , some probably just round the corner from you .
60 If the changing rooms were full , girls would undress in the middle of the shop leaving piles of clothes all over the floor , such was their desperation to find the print and the style of their choice .
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